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A visual treat from beginning to end, ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ is the best feature yet to come out of celebrated stop-motion studio Laika.

“If you must blink, do it now,” begins the voice-over narration of the animated adventure “Kubo and the Two Strings.” “Pay careful attention to everything you see, no matter how unusual ...

In the production notes for “Kubo and the Two Strings,” an absolutely gorgeous work of stop-motion animation from Oregon-based Laika, the company’s CEO, Travis Knight, writes of the power ...

But Kubo and the Two Strings ’ architect, Travis Knight, doesn’t use the project to show off how many Japanese movies he’s seen, or to catalogue his fondness for A New Hope.

The night is dark and full of terrors, even for Kubo and the Two Strings. A new behind-the-scenes look at the stop-motion-CG hybrid reveals how some of these terrifying stop-motion beasties came ...

This story about “Kubo and the Two Strings” first appeared in The Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. The idea for “Kubo and the Two Strings” was simple, and it was ...

As hinted at in the second part of that warning, "Kubo" is both extraordinarily original and extraordinarily complex, even for a grown-up movie masquerading as a kiddie cartoon (which it kind of is).

Early in “Kubo and the Two Strings,” our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village marketplace the way Toshiro Mifune might have entered a Kurosawa film, but with greater bustle ...

Kubo and the Two Strings is lovely to behold, if viewers manage to keep their eyes open. It's an animated doozy and drowser at once, an uncomfortable mix of Miyazaki-style imagination and generic ...

We finally have the first genuine animated masterpiece of 2016 — our four-star review of the stop-motion fantasy 'Kubo and the Two Strings.' ...

"Kubo and the Two Strings" is a visual feast that plays the right emotional notes.